A CASE OF LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA WITH APPARENT CURE

On Sept. 12, 1913, I was called to see a boy who had not recovered normally from a tonsillectomy done on September 6, and who had been losing weight and energy for about two months without apparent reason. The patient was 10 years old. His father and mother were living and well. He had four brothers and one sister living and in good health. His family history was negative for syphilis and tuberculosis. He had suffered from measles, whooping cough and other minor diseases of childhood, from all of which he had made uneventful recoveries. For a few days previous to Sept. 6, 1913, he had suffered from tonsillitis. On the date last mentioned the tonsils were removed under chloroform anesthesia. For a month or more his bowels had moved two or three times daily and he had complained of almost constant pain in the abdomen. Recently his nose had